NEWS.md

# s2dverification 2.8.6 (Release date: )
- Apply Roxygen2 format to all the files.
- Bug fix in Composite().
- Bug fix in Ano(). Recommend to assign the dimensions by name to avoid confusion when the dimensions have same length.
- Trend() documentation error fix.
- Introduce new function PlotMatrix().

# s2dverification 2.8.0 (Release date: 2017-02-13)
- Change licence from GPL-3 to LGPL-3.
- New veriApply compatible score functions (.BrierScore, .Corr, .RMS, .RMSSS, .RatioRMS, .RatioSDRMS and .Trend).
- New function CDORemap to interpolate R arrays with CDO.
- New function ArrayToNetCDF to save R arrays with metadata in NetCDF files.
- Enhance plot_timeseries.R and plot_maps.R example scripts to work with file-per-chunk data, for auto-ecearth v3.2.1a.
- Add colour-blind colour bars for the map plots.
- Add warning in Load when extrapolating data.
- Bug fix in ProbBins when called with cross-validation.
- Enhance documentation.
- Adapt UltimateBrier to SpecsVerification 0.5-0.
- Enhancements to adjust size and resolution in plotting functions.
- Solve PlotEquiMap bug when values equal to the lower limit.
- Bug fix in Ano.
- Bug fix in PlotVsLTime.
- Small update in the configuration file.

# s2dverification 2.7.0 (Release date: 2016-08-24)
Enhanced PlotEquiMap() and PlotStereoMap() with lots of new options and fixed issues:
- Colour bar with triangle ends and lots of new features.
- Margins, labels, ticks, colour bar, titles now arranged properly.
- Now possibile to adjust colour and border of continents, size, colour and type of contour lines, size of labels, ticks and margins, colour and width of boxes, etc.
- Draw multiple superimposed dot/symbol layers.
- Draw boxes in PlotStereoMap().
- PlotStereoMap() with bounding circle.
- Add function PlotLayout() to automatically generate complex figure layouts and populate with plots from multi-dimensional arrays.
- Fix and updated corrupted example scripts (required for new auto-ecearth releases to work).
- Add function Subset() to easily take chunks of data arrays.
- Fix bug in Load() under some particular configurations.
- Enhance margins in PlotAno().
- Update sample data to be together with metadata as provided by Load().
- Update and fix in the BSC Load() configuration file. 

# s2dverification 2.6.0 (Release date: 2016-06-06)
- Update configuration file.
- Functions to compute variability modes and project data on EOF() and ProjectField().
- Function to compute co·variability modes: SVD(), by Javi.
- Function to compute the NAO: NAO(), by Fabian, Virginie, Lauriane, Martin.
- Brier score/skill score accounting for small ensemble/start date sample size: UltimateBrier().
- K-means spatial clustering: Cluster().
- Synthetic data generator: ToyModel().
- Tropical cyclone downscaling: StatSeasAtlHurr().
- Function to composite fields: Composite().
- Function to generate map animations: AnimateMap().
- Function to plot time series with box-and-whisker plots: PlotBoxWhisker().
- Possible to disable computation of confidence intervals or p-values in ACC(), Corr(), RatioRMS(), RatioSDRMS(), RMS(), RMSSS(), Spread() and Trend().
- Possible to adjust confidence level in all functions that provide confidence intervals: ACC(), Corr(), RMS(), Spread() and Trend().
- Possible to plot arrows in PlotEquiMap().
- Possible to save plots in multiple formats, to file or onscreen from all plot functions.
- Objects returned by Load() are now closer to the format in downscaleR. The initial and end date of each time step is provided now.
- Enhancements in Smoothing().
- Load() now stops if the tag $START_DATE$/$YEAR$+$MONTH$+$DAY$ is not in the path pattern of any of the experiments.

# s2dverification 2.5.0 (Release date: 2016-01-04)
- Fix bugs when using masks in Load()
- Able to specify masks with paths to NetCDF files

# s2dverification 2.4.7 (Release date: 2015-11-15)
- Update plot_timeseries.R to new paths and to 'ncdf4'.
- Improve performance when retrieving subsets of data (regions of earth or time periods).
- Add possibility to use Load() without a configuration file. See details on parameters 'exp' and 'obs' in ?Load  

Load() now returns plenty of metadata. Highlighted:  
- Paths to all loaded files
- Paths to not found files
- Stamp with all the provided parameters to exactly reproduce any Load() call
- The name of the common grid (if any), following CDO's naming conventions  

Other enhancements in Load():
- Enhance error handling and error messages
- Add “progress bar”
- Detect automatically grid of the files. No need to specify it
- Detect automatically if the requested variable is 2-dimensional or global mean. No need to specify it
- Possibility to load observations only, from a limited period of time only
- Possibility to load NetCDF files with disordered dimensions
- Remove system dependency of 's2dverification' to NCO and some GNU tools
- Simplify configuration file: removed lists of variables and reduced from 5 tables to 2, one for experimental datasets and one for observational datasets. You can convert old configuration files to the new format with the script in /shared/earth/software/scripts/convertConfig.R as follows: /shared/earth/software/scripts/convertConfig.R /path/to/configfile.conf
- Fix and updated the sample script plot_timeseries.R
- Fix wrong entries in BSC configuration file for some ice variables.

# s2dverification 2.4.0 (Release date: 2015-07-27)
- Option to draw rectangles in PlotEquiMap()
- Motification of Corr() to accomodate ranked correlation
- Add the possibility to load the second set of HadCM3 decadal data (i3p1)
- Add functions to assist in manipulating the configuration file
- Improve examples that use extremely reduced experimental and observational datasets
- Uniformize documentation style
- Add possibility to configure dimension names to look for inside NetCDF files
- Add the possibility to load ESA observations from SMHI
- Fix bug that happened in some cases when a common grid is not specified

# s2dverification 2.3.2 (Release date: 2015-04-23)
- New CRPS() function to compute the continuous ranked probability score for ensemble forecasts.
- New ProbBins() function to compute probabilistic information of a forecast relative to a threshold or a quantile.
- Load() stops and warns if the masks provided are not in the correct grid.
- Load() didn't apply, as expected, the same masks in observations as in experiments when possible. Now fixed.
- Enhancement in Clim() documentation.
- Enhancements in Load() and configuration file documentation.
- HadSLP dataset is now loadable

# s2dverification 2.3.1 (Release date: 2015-03-09)
- Loading observations only fixed
- Loading only one leadtime fixed
- Loading a 2D variable when the first observation was not stored in file-per-dataset format fixed
- Parameter 'ncores' changed to 'nprocs'
- Improvements in configuration file mechanism and documentation

# s2dverification 2.3.0 (Release date: 2015-03-02)
- Configuration file mechanism to specify new dataset or variable paths, grids, etc.
- New parameters in Load() to specify maximum and minimum values.
- New supported dataset formats. See '?Load' in R after loadings2dverificationfor more information.
- More efficient memory usage in Load() and usage of multiple parallel processes (faster).
- NetCDF4 + OPeNDAP support

# s2dverification 2.2.0 (Release date: 2014-12-16)
- ACC provides confidence intervals obtained with bootstrap method
- Function to plot ACC score
- Function to plot variables on a polar stereographic projection
- Possibility of loading observations only
- Possibility to load more ice variables
- Adjustable significance level in the Corr function
- Adjustable number size in ColorBar

# s2dverification 2.1.0 (Release date: 2014-01-23)
- Demo scripts 'plot_timeseries.R' and 'plot_maps.R' available in the 'inst/doc' directory in thes2dverificationrepository.
- Documentation on how to specify the grids and masks to the function Load() has been added to its help page, code and package manual.

# s2dverification 2.0.0 (Release date: 2013-08-02)
- Use of the standard R package structure.
- Use of the google's R style guide.
- Functions that involved RClim set of funcions have been kept apartfrom the package (AnimVsLTime, BlueRed, PlotMap, ProjMap) as well as the authors.
- New functions have been added: Alpha, EnoNew, Filter, FitAcfCoef, FitAutocor, GenSeries, Spectrum.
- Extended help.